Scatter radiation (or direct) hits the sinus cavities and creates acute (during treatment) sinusitis, and after treatments, at least in my own personal case and others that I have talked to long term chronic sinus inflammation that produces.... TONS OF THE STUFF. It will likely be part of your life for the duration. Whenall the treatment is behind you, keep an eye out for sleep apnea caused by the accumulation of mucus in your throat while sleeping. It just keeps adding one thing after another as the years go by. I try to keep perspective by reminding myself that in order to have all the crappy long term complications I do, which are many, I have to be alive.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.